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For the Year Ending June 30th, 1891. 





REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 
OF THE 


Agricultural College of Utah. 





Logan, Utah, August, 1891. 
HON. JEREMIAH RUSK, 
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. 


Srr:—In compliance with a Co gressional law, approved 
August 30th, 1890, applying a po° \oa of the proceeds of the 
sale of public lands to the more complete endowment and 
support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the me- 
chanical arts, which requires an annual report by the presi- 
dents of said colleges regarding the condition, progress and 
other general information in relation to them, I most respect- 
fully submit the following statement: 

The Agricultural College of Utah was organized by an act 
of the Territorial Legislature of Utah, approved, March 8th. 
1888, and passed in acceptance of the conditions of the Con- 
gressional law founding agricultural colleges. $25,000 was 
given for the erection of a college building, Cache County and 
. Logan gave 100 acres of land to secure its location at Logan. 
The legislature of 1890 gave $48,000 for salaries and for equip- 
ment. 

It opened its doors for the reception of students on Septem- 
ber 4th, 1890; the past year was therefore its first year of 
active existence, and statements following will give in fact 
the history of its growth and present condition and prospects as 
requested by the Commissioner of Education, as the past year 
comprises its real history. The Congressional law, for further 
endowment of agricultural colleges, gave most opportune 
assistance to the Agricultural College of Utah, enabling it to 
enlarge its purposes and to increase its equipment. 

The development of the public school system of Utah is not 
adequate to equip students to enter beyond the freshman year 
of college, hence the limited faculty employed during the first 
year, the restricted sum paid for teaching and the large ratio 
of the Congressional grant applied to equipment. A balance 
is still reserved for further equipment and to meet the salary 


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expense of a rapidly increasing faculty. During the present 
or second school year fourteen teachers will give instruction 
in the college. 


Under “Condition and progress” of the college I will state 
that the college opened with twenty-two students and soon 
reached an enrollment of 189—106 males and 33 females. This 
number is likely to be doubled during the coming year. There 
is a strong demand in this Territory for the higher education, 
a demand that will ultimately and soon admit of the eleva- 
tion of the standard requisite for admittance to the college; 
but at present, necessitated by the inadequate development 
of a high school system and from lack of intermediate schools 
or private academies, the college has been forced to give pre- 
paratory instructions. 


The policy of the college has been framed in accordance 
with the Congressional laws endowing it. Its main course of 
instruction is that of agriculture. This Department of Agricul- 
ture has a four years course, a three years course and a course 
of winter lectures. It has.a collection for lecture room illus- 
tration for the classes in agriculture. It is provided with a 
farm of eighty-five acres, a new fine and model barn with all 
of the modern conveniences for various classes of stock and 
crops and is adapted for experiment work in animal nutrition. 
This building cost $6,000... A model modern farm house cost- 
ing $4,500 has been erected. .A laboratory for the experiment 
station costing $4.700 is also a part of the general equipment 
that serves this department as an indirect stimulus of the col- 
lege work. During the past year a club or boarding-house cost- 
ing $20,000 and accomodating seventy-five students has been 
erected, and also two cottages. — 


The present central college or school building is eighty feet 
square constituting but about one-fifth the area of the building 
when in its completed condition. The boarding-house and 
the main college building are not, however, exclusively used 
for the department of agriculture but are for the common use 
of all of the students of the college. These buildings are 
mentioned in this connection, as they conclude the list of the 
present buildings of the college. 


The college has a four years course each in domestic arts; 
mechanical engineering and civil engineering and a business 
course of two years. 

One general purpose is embodied in the courses of four 
years each, namely: A liberal and practical education of the 
industrial classes. : 

The educated man and the educated industrialist is the 


aim of our college instruction. To achieve this end imparting a 
knowledge of English and the sciences is supplemented by daily 
practical exercises in each department of study. German and 
French as optional studies are the only languages taught. 
As the college is but one year old its present condition will 
represent its progress. The college library now consists of 
about 1200 bound volumes and 3800 pamphlets. These books 
cover the leading domains of thought and are mostly from the 
pens of the great masters in their several fields. They have 
been selected with reference to the special needs of the stu- 
dents as students. Summarizing its present condition I find 
that we have seven buildings valued at $63.000, furniture and 
museum specimens and tools, apparatus and library valued 
at $25.000; 105 acres of land valued at 21.000; that 139 stu- 
dents attended the first year. The college farm includes 
twelve acres devoted to horticultural experiment work and 
sixty-eight acres to farm experiments, This feature of the 
college growth will be alluded to again under a report of the 
experiment work carried on. 


The following table shows the number of students by classes 
and by sexes. 


Boys. Girls. 


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PervU ible Giniwiien Warr ent oe 10h 2 
Ba DL riie or ran aoe Rekaten sear st ste VSR Seek NOt 60; 21 
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Several of the studies above mentioned were continued 


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through several terms—the list simply stating the number of 
students of the several classes. 


FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 


The fiscal year of the Territory begins on January Ist of 
each year and therefore does not run parallel with that of the 
Government. Again, as our College has had but one year of 
collegiate work I have, to prevent confusion, treated the Ter- 
ritorial appropriation as though it coincided in time of appro- 
priation with that of Government appropriations. 

I have also followed the letter of instructions sent out by 
Hon. Wm. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, and grouped 
all of the expenditures for the department of instruction in 
one statement and therefore refer you to the Treasurer’s 
report for a statement of the expenditure of money given by 
the Government for the purpose of instruction. 


RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
oF UTAH FoR THE YEAR ENDING, JUNE 30TH, 1891. 


Received from Territorial appropriation $48,000.00 
‘From Treasurer of the United 
States for Experiment Station 15,000.00 


From Treasurer of the United 
States for College instruc- 


plone WORK Nikita. Seen 31,000.00 
“From Experiment Station from 

Sales, ole.c 0 SOR seen 3,996.05 
Rene OIL LUILION ACeB ais a canek ae 639.00 
reel rom Tent Of TOomMs+. =), eee 89.05 


$98,724.10 


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EXPENDITURES, 


Paid Experiment Station account cae $20,211.95 


LIEN ge Rone chy She NR ec es ee A 4,601.84 
‘“ Supplies, grain, manure, hay, coal, 

boolswappltancesetes..5c.> : - Wiavacre 

“ Stationery and express........ 307.85 

Oo CSSD NRE CRs Cee Ca OR ee ora 564.57 

Re ipried fc 0e , Rhine Gan yo ks 4,771.14 

memeisCellaAnGOUs) ).% Sj43 ) fee een a 594.76 

Paid for College supplies and salaries. . $64,733.81 

Expense Fok Wrustecs: es os =. - 1,731.90 

* Buildings and furnishing........ 37,883.79 
“> Land, fences and grading....,.. 2,785.55 . 


“ Printing, stationery and insurance 2,689.99 
‘* Miscellaneous for Collegeand farm 2,463.98 





Pee mararics Of teachers vis... vs as 7,277.54 
BPE TANI S boys 7), a, feb ue vs 1,624.38 
* Materials for museums.:........ 648.23 
‘‘ Furniture for lecture rooms...... 3,204,11 
BOR Kamen nl Sot Ne ee 1,254.63 
‘* Material for mechanical arts dept. 1,976.68 
“Domestic arts department....... 573.88 
Pers Loole-andsmachmery. 2.5.5.0. 619.15 

Total, - - - $84,945.76 


I again call attention to the reason of the small ratio of ex- 
penditures for salaries of instructors. Our work was only 
that of the freshman and preparatory years and but for ten 
months of the year—the salaries of the teachers having begun 
on the previous September. In the near future the Government 
appropriation will be absorbed by our corps of instructors. 


EXPERIMENT WoRK. 


I will give an outline of the experiment work being carried 
forward by the Experiment Station, with an outlined report 
of results obtained. In the spring of 1890 all of the land 
of the college was covered with sage brush and the time 
intervening has not been adequate to cbtain permanent re- 
sults in much of the field of inquiry made by this college 
through its department of research. It is and will remain 
the policy of the station, under the present management, to 
secure in its field investigations the results of several years 
work befcre it makes such work public, and where any 


other research is specially liable to lead others to false con- 
clusions, corroborating or disproving results will be secured 
through repeated trials. 


During 1890 the following field trials were carried forward 
in the departments of agriculture and of horticulture. 


1. Fifteen acres were sown to varieties of grass for test cf 
mixed varieties of grass for grazing—eight varieties were sown. 

2. 'Ten sections were sown to as many varieties of grass, ex- 
cept the tenth half acre, which was mixed grasses. These are 
to be grazed by lots of similar animals on each, and growth of 
animals on each are to be weighed. : | 

o. Twenty-four varieties of grasses and clovers were sown on 
plats for test of varieties. 

4, Varieties of oats, wheat, corn and bane were We 
tested. 

5. A line of the most promising varieties of forage croys 
were tested. 

6. The sugar plants-—sorghum and sugar beets—were tested 
with reference to the sugar product. A sugar beet factory 
Ce been erected in the Territory, hence this inquiry. 

(. Sixty-three plats are devoted to irrigation trials: 

a. Night versus day irrigation. 

b. Flooding and other systems are being tested. 

c. Varying amounts of water were used and results noted. 

d. Varying amounts at a given time, but total amount for 
the season remaining the same. 

é. Sub-irrigation versus surface irrigation. 

jf. Length of season that irrigation can be continued suc- 
cessfully. 

g. Relation of irrigation to soil fertility. 

h. The amount.of water percolating through soil under va- 
ue applications. 

. Influence of fall irrigation, 

- Manures in their relation to irrigation. 

kX. Mulching in connection with irrigation. 

2. Lateral movement of water in the soil in irrigation, 

m. Test of a part of above questions by the use of vessels. 

8. Zinc boxes devoted to testing vaporization of water, soils 
and of the various crops. 

9. Continuous test of the power of crops to secure nitrogen 
from the air. 

10. Mulching of corn and of potatoes and the relation of a 
mulch to yield of crop, to soil temperature, moisture and soil 
fertility. 

11. Mulch of earth to above relations. 


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12. Drill versus checkrowed corn. 

15. Hilling versus flat culture of corn. 

14. No tillage, shallow tillage and deep tillage for corn and 
potatoes and their relations to soil moisture, root growth and 
crop yield. 

15. No harrowing of the ground, and little or much harrow- 
ing before planting. 

16. No plowing, shallow plowing and deep plowing for wheat 
and potatoes, 

17. Various methods of tillage for potatoes. 

18. Various methods of planting potatoes in trenches, shal- 
low and otherwise. 

19. Distances of planting potatoes, thirty-six distances being 
used. 

20. Various methods of cultivating potatoes and of using 
seed potatoes. 

21. Various times of planting and harvesting potatoes. 

22. Various amounts of seed wheat. 

23. Varying times of sowing wheat. 

24. Broadcasting versus drilling wheat. 

25. Hoeing wheat, rolling and not rolling wheat, ete. 

26. Distance of drilling wheat. 

27. Varying times of harvesting wheat. 

28. Selected seed, versus average seed and poor seed. 

29. Time of plowing and style of furrow. 

80. Depth of sowing wheat. 

31. Manure trials, utility, methcd of application, ete. 

o2. Soiling cattle. 

33. Green versus dry food for cattle. 

34, Green manuring. 

30. Rotations: 

a. Six years’ rotation. 

6. Four years’ rotation. 

c. Three years’ rotation. 

d. Two years’ rotation. 

e. All of the above rotations have each crop of the rotation. 
start the series, so that there will be in each rotation a yearly 
answer without waiting six years or the number of years of 
each rotation involved for an answer to the problem. 

Special attention will be given in these rotations to a test of 
all of the relations of a rotation to soil fertility. 

The scientific relations of all of the various questions studied 
will be closely observed. 


The barn has a silo, root cellar and other conveniences 
for feeding trials. Storage of foods in their various relations 


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and the etfect of temperature on the economy of cattle feeding 
were investigated. 

A full line of meterological instruments is in use. A su- 
perior dynamometer for test of draft of tools, etc., is at com- 
mand. This forms an outline of the work for the past 
year, but does not state all the questions that will be investi- 
gated on the farm. 


HorTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 


The Horticultural Department contains twelve acres. It 
is fully covered with crops designed for investigation and 
for school room teaching. 

1. It has set an important line of economic forest trees not 
grown in the Territory, for test in this climate. 

. It has one hundred varieties of apple trees. 

. It has twenty-five varieties of pear trees. 

. It has twenty-five varieties of plum trees. 

. It has forty varieties of peach trees. 

. It has twenty-five varieties of cherries. 

It has thirty varieties of strawberries, eight of raspber- 
. eight of apricots, and various other fruits. 

. It has varieties of vegetables, including potatoes, under 


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It has in progress tillage and irrigation tests of crops fall- 
ing within its sphere of work. 

This department of the station work will be conducted fully 
in the interests which it represents. 


During the winter, feeding experiments with horses to test 
the proper time of watering in reference to time of eating; cut- 
ting and mixing of hay and grain; carding; feeding whole 
versus ground grain, etc., were tried by the farm department. 

Six sets of hogs were fed on the varieties of hog foods avail- 
able in Utah to test their relative value. 

Hight sets of sheep were fed on ensilage versus dry fodder; 
on the various kinds of hay grown in Utah, and on grain fed 
alone. 

Kight sets of steers were fed on ensilage versus dry fodder; 
were fed in-doors and out of doors, tied up and in loose box 
stalls; blanketed and unblanketed, etc. Sets are now being 
fed on green versus dry food, and a grazing set versus a non- 
grazing set. | 

On the farm grounds have been added trials of the various 


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stock manures; fermented manures versus unfermented ma- 
nures; solid and liquid versus solid manure; and sheltered 
versus unsheltered manures. New forage plants have been 
added and other work designed. Wild grass seeds are being 
collected for propagation. 

The horticultural department has added tests of various 
amounts of manure; of orchards in lucerne, timothy in hoed 
crops and in no crops, and various methods of grafting, bud- 
ding, of propagating and handling apple trees. This depart- 
ment now contains some 600 varieties of trees and vegetables 
under trial. 

The chemical department is making digestion trials, testing 
the fuel value of woods and coals, in the interest of farmers 
who use dear fuels; is analyzing various farm products enter- 
ing into feeding trials, and testing soil conditions in connection 
with field trials. 

Seven bulletins that give the results of actual trials have 
gone to press, a resume of whose contents I will give. A large 
mass of material is on ovr books, most of it waiting for dupli- 
cation before publication. 

Bulletin No. 1 contains a statement of the or ganization and 
and proposed work of the Experiment Station. This is already 
included, in its essentials, in the body of this report. 

Bulletin No. 2 reports the results of plow trials under vary- 
ing conditions and methods of adjustment. 


CONCLUSIONS. 


1. That coulters add to the draft of plows. 

2 That trucks under the end of the beam lessen draft and 
add to the uniformity of the furrow, and decrease the work of 
the plowman. 

3. A share sharpened by a blacksmith drew 36 per cent 
- harder than a new share. 

4. A dull share drew harder than a sharp one, but not as 
hard as a poorly sharpened share. 

5. Less loss of draft was found when the plowman forced 
the plow to carry a furrow out of harmony with the hitch at 
the bridle, than it was expected would be found. 

6. When the sulky plow was forced to take land by adjust- 
ments, by the pole forming a line at an angle with the plow, 
ee was a loss of draft. 

No loss of draft was found either when the share was 
Bide straight on its base or straight on its land side—on the 
contrary, a slight gain was recorded. 

8. Lengthening the hitch slightly decreased the draft of the 
plow. 


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9. Changing plowmen varied the draft, but not so materially 
a3 it has been supposed it would. . 

10. A three wheeled sulky plow, having no pole—the third 
wheel running in the furrow and allowing of a shorter land 
side—gave a light draft and excellent work. 

11. Walking plows gave very slightly less draft than did 
sulky plows with rider, but not a material difference. 

12. The wider the furrow up to the standard cutting width 
of the plow, the less the force required to turn a square inch 
of soil. After passing this width the draft on a clover sward 
still very slightly continues to decrease. On old ground it 
does not decrease beyond tbis point. 

15. Draft decreases with depth, and probably does as long 
as the soil retains the essential physical conditions of the sur- 
face. 


Bulletin No. 3 reports the results of trials with garden vege- 
tables. This bulletin of results covers trials of many varieties 
and cannot well be summarized. The results have mainly a 
local value, and will therefore not be reviewed in this report. 
A copy of the bulletin accompanies the report. 


Bulletin No. 4 reports the results of a trial of wagons in test 
of several problems involved. A copy is enclosed to you. It 
will be found on page 14 of the annual report accompanying 
these papers. 

The following summarizes in part the work therein reported: 

1. It will be observed that the draft of a load was greater 
on a road bed chopped into fine dust than on a mud road. 

2. A worn dirt road remained wet longer than a dirt road of 
the same soil, and would carry 1413 lbs. less of net load for 
the same force. 

2. Between a worn gravel and a good gravel road the differ- 
ence was the carriage of 2974 lbs. 

4. The draft on a good gravel road and of a dry good dirt 
road showed a difference in favor of the former of 4008 lbs. 
load for the same force, or 119 per cent. more of net load could 
be carried on the former than on the latter. or the draft was 
lessened more than one-half. 


Summary of conclusions of Bulletin No. 5 on methods of 
planting potatoes, including distance of planting: 

1. The depth of planting did not materially affect the total 
yield of potatoes. 

2. Potatoes planted near the surface contained 23.1 per cent. 
more starch than those planted deeper, and were. therefore, 
worth 53.4 per cent. more for food, while being at the same 
time more palatable. 


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3. Shallow tillage and even no tillage were more effective 
than deep tillage. 

4, The yield of potatoes decreased after passing eight inches 
apart as the distance between the hills increased; the yield de- 
creased when planted nearer than eight inches. 

5. Increasing the distance between rows did not appear to 
decrease the yield. This fact is probably due to the decreased 
ratio of root cutting and might not hold true for a system of 
tillage that does not involve root cutting. 

6. Close planting resulted in an increase of moisture and in 
a decrease of starch of potatoes amounting to 7 per cent. 

7. The potatoes contained only 70.42 per cent. of moisture. 
They contained 34.84 per cent. more starch than those reported 
upon in the east, and therefore have 54.34 per cent. more value 
than such eastern potatoes. 

8. The practice of planting nearer than three feet between 
rows and one foot between hills should not be accepted as de- 
sirable until further inquiry in regard to the increased cost 
and decreased value of the product resulting from such close 
planting is made. 

9. Quality should be regarded as one of the prime consider- 
ations in potato production, as potatoes are used more as a 
luxury than wheat. 

10. Utah potatoes, being of very superior quality, require 
that our farmers maintain and even further develop this fa- 
vorable quality, and, in addition, make special etfort to make 
known to possible markets, their superior economical value 
and palatableness, for the reason that the distance to market 
beyond our border is so great that their superiority alone will 
secure for us sale in these markets except in very infrequent 
years when crops are very short in the east and very great in 
Utah. 

This Bulletin is included as it contains unsummarized data. 

Bulletin No. 6 considers trials with sleds and tillage tools. 


SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS. 


This summary will include the conclusions arrived at in a 
more complete trial made two years ago. 

For summary of results of sled trials see close of the section 
of this Bulletin devoted to sled trials. 

1. Depth of cutting the ground, draft per square inch and 
per pound of soil moved, looseness of soil and evenness of bot- 
tom varied very widely in the various types of harrows used. 

2. The rolling cutters, especially those termed cutaway har- 
rows, move the soil deepest and loosen it most, and. in the 


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form of the cutaway harrow, draw the easiest of the class that 
penetrates deeply. 

3. The spring toothed harrows draw moderately, fine to an 
average degree, and till to an average depth, but leave the 
soil with an uneven bottom and more compact than the class 
above named, while on newly plowed grass sward they tear 
up the sod. As used for the cultivation of corn, as the sulky 
harrow tried is used, they are very good implements, serving 
well the functions required in tillage of crops. 

4. The square toothed and the smoothing harrows are su- 
perficial in their action on plowed ground, run easy but com- 
press the soil more than other classes, and are therefore better 
adapted to loose soils and for putting in seeds than to do the 
tillage work of soil fitting for crops. If present views regard- 
ing tillage are correct, then these implements are utterly un- 
fitted for the purpose when applied to most soils. 

5. When depth of cutting; ease of draft; evenness of bottom, 
or of the top of the unstirred soil, and looseness of soil is con- 
sidered, the cutaway type of harrows is the best of the several 
classes of tillage tools used by the writer for the preparation 
of the average soil for crops. It is believed that the work of 
this class of harrows should always be supplemented by the 
smoothing harrow. 

6. Harrows move less earth for a given amount of force than 
plows do. but, as found in a previous trial, the force required 
for fitting the soil for crops, when the plow is used supplemen- 
ted by the harrow, is practically no less than when the har- 
row alone is used. : 

7. Less force is required to fit a given surface area of soil for 
crops when the harrow is used tian when the plow is used. 
This fact admits of the use of some substitute for the plow 
upon soils that do not require deep tillage, if indeed there are 
such soils. 

8. The relative efficiency of harrows varies on varying soils, 
and on varying conditions of a given soil, the wedge shaped 
teeth being at createst disadvantage on hard soils. 

9. The plow acting as a wedge compresses the particles 
nearer together as it inverts the soil, and divides only large 
masses, therefore the harrow is the true implement for fineing 
and loosening the soil, the plowing serving to fit the soil for 
its action. Except upon grass ground it is not improbable 
that the harrow, somewhat modified, may grow in importance 
when compared with the plow, unless the plow becomes mod- 
ified for special soils. 

Bulletin No. 7 reports the results of a trial of mowing ma- 
chines, and of principles involved in their use, 


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SUMMARY. 


1. A difference of draft was found in mowing machines, but 
not great, save in favor of one machine. This difference seemed 
to follow speed. 

2. The draft of mowing machines varies in their relations 
to each other in varying kinds of mowing. This seems to 
be due to speed, therefore they should have two or more 
pinions. 

3. The draft of machines varied with the point of attach- 
ment for draft. 

4. The draft was 8.7 per cent. greater for a well sharpened 
sickle than for one more nicely sharpened. 

5. An old machine well repaired drew easier than a new one. 

6. A six feet cutter-bar drew easier per foot of cut than a 
41 feet cutter-bar, and at a draft less than a plow carrying 
an averave furrow; therefore a pair of horses can draw a six 
feet cutter-bar. 

7. A pitman box set tight gave a draft less than one run 
quite loosely. 


_ 8. A heavy loss of force was observed when the truck at the 
end of the cutter-bar failed to roll, or 7.6 per cent. 

9. When cutter-bar is not near right line with pitman rod 
the draft is increased. 

10. When guards are out of true, draft is increased. 

11. When cutter-bar is inclined upward the draft is de- 
creased. 

12. The draft was decreased ten pounds by the driver walk- 
ing. 

13. When the sections of the sickle do not strike in the 
centre of the guards the draft is increased. 

A new college develops historic data of much local interest 
but I am not aware of other facts that I can add that will have 
extended interest. The college for its first year of existence 
has been favored to a high degree, It has met with gener- 
ous encouragement from the public and has_ been un- 
attended with misfortune or with any severe obstacles. Its 
outlook is exceedingly bright for all of its departments. The 
coming Legislature of Utah will be asked to make a very 
material addition to its school] room space and to its museum, 
library and apparatus. 

Very respectfully submitted, 
J. W. SANBORN, 
President. 








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